{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65675c71c3ca8a0012804645/65675c79c3ca8a0012804c73?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"702: Cathryn Lavery, Co-Founder BestSelf Co.","description":"<p>How many of you use a physical journal to track your goals or just share how your day went? Journaling is a total art and our guest today, Cathryn Lavery, has found a way to make this old school past time new and fresh again. In fact, she’s built an 8-figure empire called BestSelf Co., selling paper journals and other organizational tools for productivity and focus.</p><p>But 2017, Cathryn says, was the hardest year of her life. It included a divorce and total burn out. Cat comes to the show on the heels of a retreat in Thailand where she unplugged from social media, did a complete detox and walked away with some new perspectives on life and work.</p><p>We also go back in time to explore the money principals learned as a young girl growing up in Belfast and the hard life lesson she learned as soon as she arrived in New York to start her job.</p><p>Cathryn is also a genius at Kickstarter. If anyone listening wants to run a fund-raising campaign and master that space, she has some advice.</p><p>To learn more about Cathryn visit <a href=\"https://bestself.co/\">bestself.co</a> + <a href=\"http://www.littlemight.com/\">littlemight.com</a> or follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cathrynlavery\">@CathrynLavery</a>.</p><p>For more visit <a href=\"http://farnoosh.tv/podcast\">www.somoneypodcast.com</a>.</p>","author_name":"Farnoosh Torabi"}